| MAY 1, 2014 -- March 8 Review – Saint Patrick’s Day program by Joan Olschefski .
Anne Cella and Henry Cadet brought up some items to be discussed and considered doing as a Grange: doing a pancake breakfast, Bingo once per month, Ice Cream social on a Saturday in the summer months, have an open house with a "Throwback Party" to 1885 and members to dress in period clothing to greet and answer questions, show off our building and display history of the Grange. Membership Drive: have a table at the YMCA family day in September. Start a Monarch Butterfly habitat as a grange project. It was decided to do a pancake breakfast on May 4th and a membership drive at the library on April 15th.
Saint Patrick is the national saint and apostle of Ireland and is credited to bringing Christianity to Ireland. The shamrock was used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagans of Ireland. He was also known for driving the snakes from Ireland but there probably were never any snakes in Ireland anyway; but many pagans worshipped snakes and ridden the island of them was more symbolic of putting an end to pagan worship.
March 27 Review – Talk on Beekeeping by Jim Pyskaty. Jim talked about bees, their lives, their hives and keepers of the hives. All bees are females except the drones. First he discussed what the queens do: lay eggs. Their life span is about 5 years. The worker bees are also female. They start out in the hive when they are born guarding the hive, building combs or making wax. They don’t go out of the hive till later. Worker bees don’t last too long; they can last 5 days to a few weeks depending how long their wings last. Once they wear out their wings, they die. This why the queen is so active producing eggs; because she has to be able to replace all those worker bees. Bees are active all the time and never sleep. The drones, the males, don’t do too much except hang around waiting to mate with a virgin queen bee. There was much more he showed demonstrated about the hive: the type of combs used and parts of the hive. So it was a good overview on what bees are and the art of keeping bees.
May 4: Pancake Breakfast from 8am to Noon. Pancakes, sausage patties, maple syrup, orange juice, coffee and tea.
May 8: “Armed Forces Day”, this will also be our inspection night.
May 22: Scheduled to be our Anniversary night, it was pushed back to June 12th since our recipient, Rosemary Rascati wasn’t able to make this night. A new program will be announced for this night.
June 12: 129th Anniversary Celebration and our Community Citizen will be Rosemary Rascati. |
